I think I've been away from the OR too long, because the video I just watched of what pro-lifers retrieved from the dumpster at the Women's Advisory Center abortion mill in Livonia, MI, made me queasy....

Monica Miller warned me the video was NC-17 rated. Seeing baby skulls and body parts and so much blood in the same trash as McDonald's and Olive Garden wrappers just got to me.

Citizens for a Pro-Life Society has posted this story on its website but hasn't yet released it to the press.

In April MI pro-lifers returned to search dumpsters at Alberto Hodari's infamous abortion mills to see if he had relapsed and begun throwing babies he had aborted into the trash (which he had not).

They thought while they were at it they'd check the dumpster at WAC and came up with a mother un-lode of aborted babies, many medical records, urine cups with names on them, unused syringes, sharps, and blood everywhere.

WAC is owned by abortionist Reginald Sharpe. He bought it from abortionist Rodolfo Finkelstein (recipient of my first annual abortionist of the year award) in 2005 before Finkelstein fled the country after being convicted of sexual assault of several patients.

In fact, Finkelstein started a late-term laminaria abortion on a mother the day before he fled in March 2005, leaving it for Sharpe to finish. That day Sharpe left the mill while the mother was laboring, and she screamed so loudly her mother in the waiting room called 911. Paramedics arrived and found she had just delivered a 28-week dead baby but was in acute medical trouble, so they rushed her by ambulance to the hospital.

For that WAC job Sharpe was alerted on April 3, 2005, that his license was being suspended for 9 months for committing illegal late-term abortions. 2 days later his clinic burned down for unknown reasons. His license was restored in August 2006, just in time to begin aborting in a new building. Sharpe owns 3 mills.

The MI Department of Environmental Quality conducted its own search of Sharpe's dumpster after pro-lifers alerted it and confirmed finding what they found. But like it did Hodari, DEQ has merely given Sharpe a warning, "less than a slap on the hand," said Monica. "They're basically saying, 'Don't do it again, and we'll be back on this date to check you.'"

Read more details and see more photos at the CPS website.

[HT: Milissa at Catholic Pro-Life Committee; thanks for background info to stalwart pro-lifer Lynn Mills, who has tracked WAC since 1983]

Washington, D.C.'s archbishop Donald Wuerl has responded to complaints he allowed Catholic pro-abort politicians receive communion during the Pope's April 17 Mass at Washington Nationals stadium. Catholic Online reported May 6 that Wuerl wrote in an April 30 Catholic Standard column:

I have always respected the role of the local church and the ministry of the individual bishop as shepherd of the church entrusted to his care....

A decision regarding the refusal of holy Communion to an individual is one that should be made only after clear efforts to persuade and convince the person that their actions are wrong and bear moral consequences....

Presumably this is done in the home diocese where the bishops and priests, the pastors of souls, engage the members of their flock in this type of discussion.

On one hand I think Wuerl expressed a valid concern of not wanting to usurp the authority of a politician's own priest or diocese. He is in a unique position as head of the Catholic Church in D.C., where so many out-of-town infamous Catholics work.

On the other hand, this could read like a cop out....

If a Catholic politician spends a significant amount of time between 2 parishes, doesn't the parish where pro-abortion actions are committed bear some responsibility, even if not the home parish?

I experienced a similar situation. The lead abortionist at Christ Hospital when I worked there was a Catholic named Dr. Steven Ambrose, head of the high risk pregnancy group.

Although Christ was located within the confines of the Archdiocese of Chicago, so Ambrose did his dirty work there, he lived in Westmont, IL, and attended chruch at Holy Trinity, located within the Joliet Diocese.

So for a time neither accepted responsibility for Ambrose. Ultimately the Chicago Archdiocese took up the matter and held a meeting with Ambrose (although it did no good - I know, I continued to work with him). His own priest, meanwhile, refused to stop offering Ambrose communion. But I give Cardinal George credit for trying.

But I digress. Is Wuerl following Catholic protocol of which I'm unaware?

[HT: LifeNews.com; photo courtesy of friendsoflourdesusa.com]

The video below is incredible. It reenforces the fact that the rule of law applies to all but pro-aborts.

On May 1 pro-abort University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students, led by UWSP Student Senator Roderick King, vandalized in broad daylight and while being filmed a pre-approved display by the UWSP pro-life group Pointers for Life.

The display was rows of crosses called the Cemetery of the Innocents to commemorate babies killed by abortion....

Unbelievably, even after a university security guard showed up and told King to stop, he didn't, and the wimpy campus cop just let him continue ripping up crosses. King's illogical excuse was, "If there is a student on this campus that has had an abortion or that might be having an abortion, might be going through this, you want this up in front of them? Are you crazy?"

Illogical because if abortion is such a great right and a win-win (a win for moms offing unwanted babies and a win for unwanted babies being rescued from mad moms by death), what awful thing is there to "go through"? And if King actually believed that, was he not generating more abortion by trying to keep mothers ignorant of the ramifications?

Worse, despite a written complaint by PFL, the UWSP Student Government Association has not disciplined or removed King from SGA.

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Bob Tomlinson apologized to PFL. Big whoop if there's not going to be justice.

I called UWSP Chancellor of Student Affairs Linda Bunnell at 715-346-2123 (email: lbunnell@uwst.edu) just now and was told she is in a meeting (what for, I wonder). The person answering the phone said the university will issue a statement on its website under "news" later today.

I asked whether UWSP would discipline King and was told any decision would be guarded by privacy laws.

In a written statement, Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students for Life of America, got it right: "[C]ampus pro-life groups are being singled out and excluded from the guaranteed freedom of speech and expression on college campuses."

Here's the video [UPDATE, 5/13, 9:30a: The embed is disabled at the moment. View video here.]

BTW, good work on PFL's part for having a video camera with them. Pro-lifers should always have video cams with them when they engage in public dissent.

(See video on page 2.)

UPDATE, 2p: UWSP has issued a statement [HT: Kristan at SFL] calling King's behavior "unacceptable" and may be doing something ("University procedures are being followed") but won't say what.

On April 24, KS pro-life U.S. Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts issued a press release endorsing Steve Howe for Johnson County district attorney.

The release called the position an "open seat."

It is not.

Phill Kline is currently the appointed district attorney and has been urged to reconsider his decision not to run to retain his seat in November....

Kline is the only DA in the country with a pending criminal case against a Planned
Parenthood....

Brownback knows pro-lifers are encouraging Kline to stay... because many influential pro-lifers called him and asked him to wait for Kline to decide before endorsing. There was no hurry. The filing deadline is still over a month away....

But Brownback... endorsed Howe anyway....

The question is whose help does Brownback want?

RINOS and hacks want the Planned Parenthood investigation ended. They fear a run by Kline will stir more Democrats to vote than might otherwise.

They also consider the Johnson County DA position a launching pad to a bigger and better thing: The AG's office.

Was Brownback enticed to support Howe for a promise of support in his gubernatorial bid by non-conservative Republicans?

Or perhaps he fears sharing the ticket with Kline in 2010?

Last Thursday a group of Kansas pro-life leaders paid Brownback a surprise visit in his
Washington, D.C., office....

Continue reading my column today, "Is Brownback betraying pro-lifers?" on WorldNetDaily.com.